Popular reading and publishing in Britain 1914-1950

Joseph McAleer

Popular reading and publishing

in Britain 1914-1950

Oxford University Press/

Clarendon Press

Oxford, U.K.

XIV + 284 pages, 1992

ISBN / 0-19-820329-2

Acknowledgements

List of illustrations

List of figures

List of tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Popular reading and publishing 1870-1914

2. "Books are a commodity" : The commercialization of popular fiction

3. "The quickest way out of Glasgow" : Adult reading habits

4. "Take the place of Valium" : Mills & Boon Ltd

5. "We must prevent the leakage" : Children's reading habits

6. "Get me the boy from the age of six" : D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd

7. "The public mind might be diverted" : The religious tract society

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index